Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-09-02
THE HoRsE-BREeDERs' MEETING.

The third annual exhibition of the Ver-
mont association of Road and Trotting
Horse-Breeders, which is to be held at
Rutland on Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday of next week-Sept. I, s and o.
will excel in interest any previous meet
ing of the association. The number of
entries is larger in all classes and every
thing indicates a very successful affair.
The stakes and purses aggregate $4,000.
Round-trip tickets will be sold at the
several stations for fare one way.
The final payment of entry fees was
due on the 25th of August. The several
stakes as they now stand are as follows,
the names given being those Of horses on
which third payment has been made, and
the value" stated is the amount of the
stake to be divided:
No. /, Association stakes, for foals of
1856; value, Sl71 Havelock, Flora B.,
Kathleen, White Lip, Bessie NJ, Wanda,
Ruby Nutbourne.
No. 2, Pine Hill Stock Farm stakes, for
foals of 1885; value, $40; Albemarle,
Claremont, Col. Hooker II. T. c., Ida
May, Ino. Josephine B., Lindale, Sir
Thomas, Yellow Dock, Mcintosh, Gillig,
Index, Snow FlBke.
No. 3, Kent stakes, for foals of 1884 ;
value, S494; Addison Black Hawk, Belle
Bowman, Ethan S., Grand Isle, Hattie
Kinds, n. o. D., r. d. F., Victor Wilkes,
Gen. Hancock Lola, Sciota.
No. 1, George W. Hooker stakes, for
foals of 1888; value, 1885; Cassie B.,
Emma B., Henry B., Urda, Montrose,
May Be, Zoe.
No. 3, Brookside Stock Farm stakes,
for foals of 1882; value, $500; Bethel
Lambert, Bismarck, Susie, Gen. Grant.
No. 6, Bread Loaf Stock Farm stakes,
for mares of any age that have never
beaten minutes; value. $3.50; Blanche
B., Ena, Fanny H., Meta Pine. Minnie
Hauk, Sister.
No. Z, Green Mountain Stock Farm
stakes, for stations of any age that have
never beaten 2:40; value, $3.50; Engi-
neer, Mambrino Jet, Morgan Enterprise.
No. S, Maplewood Stock Farm stakes,
open to all stations; value, 1920; Gold
finder, Thought, Gen. George a. Ballard.
Purse of $500, open to all herses that
have never beaten 2 80; three entries
Sister, b. m, owned by L. G.. B. Cannon,
Burlington; Mary A., br. M, owned by
Joseph Bacon, Burlington, Tiny, b. M.
owned by w. H. H. Walker, Ludlow.
Premium of 500, for Morgan stall
lions, given by Joseph Battell, Esq, eight
entries-Lambert B. and Golden, both
entered by W. S. Bailey, East Hardwick !;
John L., entered by VIM. Sullivan, Or
we'll; Claremont, entered by W. II. De-
long, West Cornwall; Ben Franklin, en-
tered by H. 7. Cults, Orwell; Clay Lam
bert, entered by VIM. NJ. Partch, New
Haven; Clay Franklin, entered by F. r..
Bissette, Middlebury; Vermont Boy, en-
tered by Fred Marseilles, Middlebury.
Premium for brood mares with colt at
foot, ten entries, made by Chas. f. Ba-
ker, Rutland; E. Bowman, Rutland H.
o. Hopkins, Clarendon; W. II. Vail
quette, Rutland; j. f. Post, Rutland !:
John 7. Ballard, Tinmouth (2); a. G..
Westcott, Clarendon Springs; Hon. JON
athan Ross, st. Johnsbury, and another,
owner not given, out of Laura Williams
by Holabirds Ethan Allen.
Premium for matched horses, one en-
try, made by W. R. Dorr, Rutland.
The programme is as follows:
Wednesday-lO a. M, grand cavalcade
of all horses on exhibition: 10 D. M,
trotting for stakes Nos. /, 2 and I; ex-
hibition of matched horses after first heat
in first race.
Thursday-l0 a. M, cavalcade for ex-
hibition; ! :l5 p. M, trotting for stakes
Nos. 4, and 6; exhibition of brood
mares with colts after second heat of
first race.
Friday-l0 a. m, cavacade of horses
on exhibition; ! :l5 p. M, trotting for
stakes Nos. 3 and s and for purse of $500
exhibition of Morgan stations after Sec
ond heat in first race.